I'm on interwebtelly with Iain Dale this evening. I am on with Iain, Zoe and Christine Constable of the English Democrats discussing an English parliament, English votes for English issues, English flags, England expects etc. etc.
This is already a big issue and will only grow if Gordon Brown becomes PM. Let me know what you think, either here or on the 18 Doughty Street site.
24 October, 2006
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The problem with an English parliament is dissolution of the union. Apart from the clear disadvantages for Scotland and the other home countries, there would be a 'to hell with the English' attitude more so than now. LBJ said of Hoover, 'Better to have the bastard inside, pissing out than outside pissing in.'
James that was very much the point I made, though not in quite the same way.
Well the Union as it stands prejudicially disadvantages England.
Added to this are comments like "the English do not constitutionally exist" (John Prescott - see the English Democrats website) and the late Robin Cook "England is not a nationa it is just a collection of regions" (BBC's Today programme).
Well if the choice is between England being broken for the sake of a Union with surly Scots, opr the Union being broken up for the sake of England, I will fight to the death for the latter.
England was around for lot longer than the United Kingdom.
And anyway, why the hell should we English suffer third calss citizenship because of what the Scots might do?
My answer to that is "cancer drugs". Some Union.
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